in the past, what materials were used for writing?
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Some Writing materials of ancient times are described below:
1. Stone: In ancient period, man lived in the cave. They had written by symbol on the stone for durability. Most of the Asokan inscriptions were engraved on stone. Rosetta Stone is an example of this.
These stones are kept upon one by one in a room.
2. Bark/ Leaves: Bark is the layer of tissue surrounding the woody cylinders of trees. Bark was used almost universally as a writing surface at once time. Besides, palm leaves were used to writing materials in the ancient time.
2. Bark/ Leaves: Bark is the layer of tissue surrounding the woody cylinders of trees. Bark was used almost universally as a writing surface at once time. Besides, palm leaves were used to writing materials in the ancient time.A mixture of lampblack and oil and salt of Salicylic acid were used on these for protection from insects.
3. Clay Tablets: Clay tablet was made with mud. Clay first moistened then kneaded into dough, shaped by hand, inscribed with a stylus while still soft band finaly hardened.
3. Clay Tablets: Clay tablet was made with mud. Clay first moistened then kneaded into dough, shaped by hand, inscribed with a stylus while still soft band finaly hardened.These were preserved in the big box for there frailness.
4. Papyrus: This writing material made from the marrow of the papyrus plant. This was smooth enough when new to be written on with the Egyptian’s fiber brush pen.
4. Papyrus: This writing material made from the marrow of the papyrus plant. This was smooth enough when new to be written on with the Egyptian’s fiber brush pen.For convenience, the papyrus sheets were glued into long strips. then these were rolled on wooden cylinders and wrapped in skins or cloth.
5. Parchment and Vellum: The process for making parchment and vellum is supposed to have been developed about 190 B.C. at Pergamum in Asia Minor. true vellum is the skin of a young, usually not over six weeks old, calf which has been cleaned of hair, fat, muscle etc. It is preserved by soaking in a always been the choice of craftsmen for luxurious manuscripts and for expensive bindings. Parchment was used for bindings and manuscripts of lesser quality.
Sewing the written sheets these were covered with skin or vellum, at both side for protection from insects.
Ancient Writing Materials.
Ancient writers wrote on a variety of other materials besides papyrus, including pottery, animal hides, wood, and even ancient paper. There was, to a certain extent, a progression over time from the use of papyrus to parchment and later, paper.
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